Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:24:22 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm-353 Message-ID: <tkrat.a06a046f79ce4be4@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202002060933.0169X85o042518@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <20200202103600.1959de17@dismail.de> <20200202154227.GB1309@albert.catwhisker.org> <20200202121118.71446c54@dismail.de> <20200202123845.46fc2d8b@dismail.de> <20200202185446.GB60645@server.rulingia.com> <20200202205050.GA2182@squirrel.exwg.net> <600545092.3036828.1580684357864.JavaMail.zimbra@his.com> <20200203075041.GA2321@squirrel.exwg.net> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2002040632440.33501@aneurin.horsfall.org> <CAN6yY1viKMHtn855E00dz3WnzrBBDU30iZ69aqsQG0Ps384UiA@mail.gmail.com> <5e3957d5.1c69fb81.a3f10.6cedSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CAN6yY1vKR8r=K7PYfgTSPUCE02rCuQMUmfJtE48r=-3qGn8VrQ@mail.gmail.com> <535a5742.1c69fb81.21fce.7f8bSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CAN6yY1vh7nrM5rsgJcS1AepxwWB=TYPN2JWY3=KB=VKk7k=WYg@mail.gmail.com> <202002060933.0169X85o042518@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 6 Feb, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Kevin Oberman writes: >> > > Where would I find User Agent Switcher by Linder? Would it be >> > > on a Mozilla site, and would it work with SeaMonkey? > >> > > Would the several Firefox or SeaMonkey extensions have similar >> > > functionality? > >> > It's available through Firefox from about:addons. It is the one by >> > Linder, one of at eat three extensions of the same name. I don't >> > know about SeaMonkey. Does it support the extension interface like >> > Firefox? If so, it will probably work. You might also check the >> > website at http://mybrowseraddon.com/useragent-switcher.html > >> Seamonkey - which was my default browser until it was no longer >> updated - came with this ability built in. The only problem was >> the list of alternate identities was vintage, like, 2000 with no way >> (that I knew of) to change it. > > >> Respectfully, > > >> Robert Huff > > I went to seamonkey-project.org website a few months ago, saw it was > still being developed, not dead, not lame-duck. > > I defined a separate profile, named "chase", where I went to > about:config, defined general.useragent.override (not sure if I > remembered that perfectly) to be the regular user agent string but > with "SeaMonkey" removed. > > Then the web server recognized the browser as Firefox. I don't see > what's so bad about including "SeaMonkey", but that's how the web > server software works: buggy, or maybe the bug is in the head of that > software developer and/or webmasters who continue to use that web > server software even after being informed about the bug. I use Firefox. In my case, the server was upset that I wasn't running my browser on Windows or Mac. I changed the user agent string to tell the server that I was running the latest Firefox on Windows 2000, which made it happy. I tried for Windows 98, but couldn't get that to work.
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